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Sven Åke-Johansson: Two Days at Cafe OTO

Read "Two Days at Cafe OTO" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn


Sven Åke-Johansson's death in 2025 felt distinctly like a chapter closed. There is a cliche in Jazz to characterize players of a certain class and longstanding influence as “youthful" or otherwise endlessly inventive despite multi-decade, multidisciplinary careers. Its excessive use is justified by elements of the medium's own construction and history. Jazz itself appears to be an eternally youthful tradition, a set of lofty and difficult characteristics which coalesce into an incorruptible, universal playground. What results is an often tumultuous ...

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Antonio Borghini: Banquet of Consequences

Read "Banquet of Consequences" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Dalla fine degli anni Novanta avevo assistito all'esordio di Antonio Borghini in seno al collettivo bolognese Bassesfere, al fianco di Fabrizio Puglisi, Cristina Zavalloni, Domenico Caliri, Edoardo Marraffa e tanti altri. Già nei primi anni del Duemila il contrabbassista aveva cominciato a collaborare anche con maestri internazionali del calibro di Tristan Honsinger, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, John Tchicai... Da quando nel 2009 ha deciso di spostarsi a Berlino, come altri cervelli in fuga alla ricerca di ulteriori esperienze ...

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Schnell: Live at Sowieso

Read "Live at Sowieso" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This international trio spares no effort with its plight to create hyper-mode bebop like gamma rays streaming through the universe at light speed. It's a rather amazing live set, that was probably meant to be performed in front of an audience and not in a cloistered studio setting. To say it's invigorating doesn't tell the whole story. Saxophonist Pierre Borel offers many lessons here, largely steeped in intensely focused attacks, where he dishes out a menagerie of stunning improvisational movements, ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Resta chi va

We Insist! Records
2025

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Banquet of...

We Insist! Records
2023

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Live at Sowieso

Clean Feed Records
2018

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